Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

- Wheeler, John Archibald

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.